{"id":902,"date":"2006-04-19T00:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T04:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=902"},"modified":"2006-04-19T00:49:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T04:49:00","slug":"screw-mansbridge-harper-one-on-one-with-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=902","title":{"rendered":"Screw Mansbridge &#8211; Harper one on one with Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/en\/releases\/archive\/April2006\/18\/c5194.html\">brilliant media stunt <\/a>for Harper, all the more so because it&#8217;s genuine. The cowboy hats and burger flipping last summer was a disaster because Harper hated it, but talking hockey on TSN is a way he can relate to Canadians without being out of his element.<\/p>\n<p>Why do Canadians like Stephen Harper? Even though he&#8217;s smarter than most of us, he seems like an average guy and I have no doubt that he got a huge kick out of talking hockey for five minutes instead of droning on about accountability acts and GST cuts.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberals would be well served to pick a leader who Canadians can relate to, or Harper is going to steamroll to an easy win next election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a brilliant media stunt for Harper, all the more so because it&#8217;s genuine. The cowboy hats and burger flipping last summer was a disaster because Harper hated it, but talking hockey on TSN is a way he can relate to Canadians without being out of his element. Why do Canadians like Stephen Harper? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}